Literally the game's entire ending.
Rastan meets Ikari Warriors.
Vandyke is a 1990 fantasy-themed, Run-and-Gun-style arcade game released by UPL.
You play as an unnamed Barbarian Hero (which could be named Vandyke, the game doesn't really confirm it) on a quest to rid the land of all evil, by battling your way through hordes and hordes of enemies, from human mooks to the undead and assorted monsters... and yep, that's pretty much all the plot there is to the game.
This game contain examples of:
- 1-Up: You can collect extra lives, which is in the shape of a flexing arm with the words "1UP" on it.
- Amphibian Assault: You'll be killing hostile, oversized frogs constantly throughout the game.
- Barbarian Hero: Your character is dressed in stereotypical barbarian furs and fights bare-chested, with Barbarian Long Hair for good measure.
- Bat Out of Hell: Giant bats are another frequently-encountered mook.
- Blob Monster: Giant blue blob creatures with eyes, that spits smaller blobs on you are another enemy type.
- Chest Monster: There are areas with trapped chests that, when opened, releases a giant green reptilian monster (one at least ten times larger than the chest it's kept in) into attacking you.
- Cruel Elephant: The first boss is a giant green elephant monster with a genie growing out it's trunk. Yes, really. Said monster will repeatedly attempt trampling over you as the genie release projectiles.
- Dem Bones: Walking skeletons are a frequently-encountered enemy type.
- Epic Flail: One of the first power-ups available, which turns your sword into a long flail, covering a greater radius and killing more onscreen enemies with each swing.
- Everything Trying to Kill You: You'll spend much of the game getting swarmed by assorted enemies, from human mooks to monsters, the undead, random wildlife...
- Homing Projectile: More than one power-up allows you to release energy missiles that chases after onscreen foes.
- Lethal Lava Land: One stage is set in a volcano with you jumping over platforms and trying not to fall.
- Made of Explodium: Every onscreen enemy will explode once they're killed, regardless if they're human, monsters, or supernatural entities. Just because.
- Medusa: A purple-haired Gorgon is the second boss of the game.
- Mercy Invincibility:
- You get a few seconds of invulnerability every time you're hit, should you have enough lives remaining.
- Skeleton mooks need to be hit twice before they're killed. When hit the first time, they collapse into a pile of bones that reforms after a few seconds, and in the meantime you can't continue attacking them while they're reforming.
- Oculothorax: Late into the last stages, you'll battle gigantic floating eyeballs that can damage you by touching.
- Scary Scorpions: Man-sized scorpions are enemies in the ruins level.
- Smart Bomb: There's a spell which release a burning wave of fiery explosions covering the entire screen, that wipes out all onscreen mooks in an instant.
- Starter Equipment: You begin the first stage with a sword that covers roughly a few steps ahead with each swing, but then you're in a village of hostile, but poorly-armed human mooks. And you can collect better weapons within minutes into gameplay.
- A Winner Is You: If you made it past the final stage and complete the game, you're then rewarded by... a still of your character Watching the Sunset. Yes, that image on top of this page. Then it ends.
- Wolverine Claws: Every now and then, you'll be fighting human mooks armed with clawed gauntlets.
- The Worm That Walks: One of the bosses is a masked giant humanoid in robes, which is actually a pile of worms, many who slither periodically out of it's sleeves to swarm over you. Upon defeat, it reverts back to a pile of robes.
- Zerg Rush: The preferred tactic of your enemies, that comes at you by the dozens, frequently clogging the screen with onscreen foes, faster than you can kill them all.
